Re: Is it time to retire type "opaque"?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is it time to retire type "opaque"?
Date: 2020-03-03 23:39:26
Message-ID: 10245.1583278766@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> In short, I propose ripping out OPAQUE entirely.

Like so...

I separated out the changes in CREATE TYPE because that's a bit
more complicated than the rest. The behavior around shell types
gets somewhat simpler, and I moved the I/O function result type
checks into the lookup functions to make them all consistent.

regards, tom lane

Attachment Content-Type Size
0001-simplify-CREATE-TYPE-1.patch text/x-diff 21.6 KB
0002-remove-remaining-traces-of-OPAQUE-1.patch text/x-diff 16.8 KB

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